Cisco WebEx announces web conferencing service on smart phones

Service to enable easy mobile web conferencing

Through this service users will be able to join Cisco WebEx Meeting Center web and audio conferences on smartphones including the BlackBerry Bold, BlackBerry Curve 8900, and BlackBerry Storm from RIM, the Nokia E71, Nokia E75, Nokia N97, and other Nokia Eseries and Nseries, and the Samsung Blackjack II.

They will be able to participate in audio and web conferencing via 3G or Wi-Fi, attend scheduled meetings and view presentations, applications and desktops with live annotations.

Highlights / Key Facts:

• With Cisco WebEx™ meetings on a smartphone, users are no longer out of touch when on the road. Productive meetings with customers, colleagues and partners are now as easy as a phone call. In response to customer needs, Cisco is expanding its offering of Cisco WebEx Meeting Center to include smartphones such as the BlackBerry® BoldTM, BlackBerry CurveTM 8900, and BlackBerry StormTM from Research In Motion (RIM), the Nokia E71, Nokia E75, Nokia N97, and other Nokia Eseries and Nseries, and the Samsung Blackjack II.
• Users will be able to launch Cisco WebEx Meeting Center through the browser on their smartphones to receive integrated audio and web conferencing over 3G or a combination of 2G and Wi-Fi. In addition, users will be able to attend a scheduled meeting and to view presentations, applications and desktops with live annotations. This offering is planned to be available on several smartphone operating systems including BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. There is no cost to attend these meetings, but to schedule and host a meeting from a computer requires a host account on Cisco WebEx Meeting Center.

About Cisco WebEx

With Over 3.5 million users, Cisco WebEx has grown to become the world leader in online meeting solutions. A global leader in on-demand applications for collaborative business on the web, their applications enhance high-touch business processes, such as sales and training, with efficient web-touch interactions. As an on-demand provider, Cisco WebEx is able to facilitate both internal and external collaboration. It delivers its range of applications over the Media Tone Network, a global network specifically designed for the secure delivery of on-demand applications and rich media content. The applications support multipoint video conferencing, web conferencing, telework and application remote access.

Wholly owned by Cisco Systems Inc, Cisco WebEx is the leading provider of Audio, Web Casting, and Web Conferencing services. They create solutions for various organizations around the globe, and facilitate their clients to meet their most ambitious goals in marketing, sales, training and support. Cisco WebEx on-demand software solutions are used by companies of every size. Today 81 of the fortune 100 companies use Cisco WebEx products.

With Cisco WebEx, users share presentations, applications, documents and desktops, with full – motion video and integrated audio, all in a rich multimedia environment. Organizations using meeting applications include business in financial services, high-tech, healthcare, pharmaceutical, communications, manufacturing, government, and management consulting. They use Cisco Webex at every stage from both customer and product lifecycles, driving results in sales, marketing fulfillment, product development, manufacturing, training and support with real-time collaboration

Cisco WebEx continues to innovate constantly further reinforcing the reliability and security issues of on-demand collaboration. It facilitates one to connect to people anywhere, anytime, across the world. Whether a part of a global enterprise with offices around the world or a one person, home based business or something in between, Cisco WebEx helps one become more productive, reducing travel and sales cycles. Today, they are a proven technology leader offering quality support to more then 28000 customers – a testimony to the company commitment to the market place.